Hydro Tasmania

Hydro Tasmania (formerly HEC, short for Hydro-Electric Commission) is a public company owned by the Australian Government and the main supplier of electricity in Tasmania. Because of the mountainous topography and high rainfall climate in Central and Westtasmanien the company specializes in producing energy from hydropower.

History

1914 advised the Tasmanian Government established a Ministry of a hydroelectric power ( Hydro-Electric Department) to complete the first hydroelectric power plant, the Waddamana Hydro-Electric power station. The Ministry also took over two private hydropower plants in Launceston and at Lake Margaret and named in 1929 in Hydro-Electric Commission (HEC ) to.

After the Second World War, many immigrants came to Tasmania and as a result, new power plants, mainly built in the Central Highlands. As there the number of potential sites for new power plants began to decline, began gradually to open up the west of the island. During this time, reservoirs such as Lake Gordon and Lake Pedder of were built.

However, in the early 1980s, this process came to a halt; Through protest movements within the population against the construction of new reservoirs, denouncing the loss of valuable natural areas, for example, could not be built the Franklin Dam.

On 1 July 1998, the individual divisions of the HEC were divided into three companies in the wake of deregulation of the Australian electricity market:

• Hydro Tasmania: power plant operation and energy
• Transend Networks: Energy Transfer
• Aurora Energy: Sales to end customers

In May 2005, Tasmania joined the National Electricity Market, the Australian Energy Exchange, at.